Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Sept 21, 2015 (II)

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(5) Brian Womack, Richard Rubin and Alex Sherman, Oof!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... -its-alibaba-shares
("It might be the most expensive 'no comment' in history. In February, Yahoo! asked the Internal Revenue Service to give advance approval for one part of its plan to create a new company to hold its $25 billion stake in Alibaba Group Holding. The spinoff was aimed at saving the estimated $9 billion in taxes Yahoo would owe if it sold the shares. In a Sept 8 regulatory filing, however, Yahoo said the IRS had been noncommittal: The agency, it said, 'was not ruling adversely on the request,' but it didn’t give its blessing")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Ominous rumblings from the IRS about a spinoff leave the company groping for a path forward
(b) oof (n; etymology): "(slang) money"
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/oof

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(6) Gareth Allan and Shingo Kawamoto, In Japan, Mobile Money Is an Also-Ran.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... shun-mobile-banking

Quote:

"The luxurious branches help to explain why Japan * * * falls behind even India and Nigeria in the use of mobile phones for banking. With its still-heavy reliance on cash for transactions, Japan has the lowest usage of mobile banking among 18 nations, mainly because physical outlets and automated teller machines can do more than phone apps, according to a UBS Group AG study.

"The Japanese preference for branches is in stark contrast with China, where long queues at crammed branches have driven people to portable devices. China ranked No 1 in the UBS survey, with 63 percent of customers using their phones for banking, compared with only 16 percent in Japan. The U.S. was 13th, with 35 percent.

In Japan ATMs are "more popular than branches."

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Customers prefer branches and ATMs to their phones
(b) Shingo KAWAMOTO  河本 真吾